http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |• Donnell Battie was in a Wal-Mart two years ago when a teenage boy commandeered the store's public address system and, as a prank, ordered all black people to leave.

The boy was arrested days later on harassment and bias intimidation charges, but Battie, who is black, claimed in May 2012 that the boy's announcement still haunts him. He filed a $1 million lawsuit against Wal-Mart in Camden, N.J., claiming that he has required medical care due to the "severe and disabling emotional and psychological harm" of the boy's words. [Associated Press, 5-15-2012]

• Myron Cowher, who claims he was harassed by workers as a truck driver for Carson and Roberts Site Construction and Engineering of Lafayette, N.J., filed a lawsuit in 2010 against his supervisors for making anti-Semitic comments about him -- even though he is not Jewish.

After the trial court tossed the case out, an appeals court reinstated it in April 2012, ruling that Cowher deserves the opportunity to show how he felt persecuted by the comments even though they did not apply to him. [Star-Ledger (Newark), 4-22- 2012]